How would your city benefit from Interstate 14? (Atlanta, Columbus: schools, upkeep)

[Hot_Mike]

It will enter Augusta thru Wrens to Dean Bridge Road, a straight shot to Regency

[ericsteward2003]

If you want to connect the cities, build a train system so people can commute between cities for work.

[midgeorgiaman]

The final word is in: A new interstate across the Fall Line cities would be convenient, but will never happen because it doesn't really benefit anyone other than making it slightly easier to drive.

[Saintmarks]

Georgia needs one if not two interstates to relieve 75. Proposals to extend I-185 both north and south have been proposed, even as an extension of I-81 which has its southern terminus in Knoxville. Saw a link not too long ago which would have 81 overlay 75 from Knoxville to Chattanooga and then down the western side of the state to hook up with 185 at LaGrange. Proposals to extend 185 southward to either Tallahassee or Panama city have been made.

I-3 is another interesting proposal that could relieve 75 and divert traffic around Atlanta. Would see either or both of these as more important than another east/west road.

[Hot_Mike]

My point exactly, I-3 should first priority in the state.

[pickleswanson]

Why not just do GA up right?

Hope I attached this correctly. Never attached anything before.

[Hot_Mike]

theres no savannah-augusta conection in this pic.

[pickleswanson]

Originally Posted by Hot_Mike

theres no savannah-augusta conection in this pic.

Yeah, unfortunately I couldn't find a map with a small enough portion of SC to include it in a pinch.

I don't think the Augusta - Savannah connection should be in GA.

In the case of this particular map:

If you look at Savannah, the I-77 extension comes from Columbia, SC.
So use SC 125 as the route from Augusta to Savannah, This would tie into 77 near Fairfax, SC.
This new route, from what I can tell of available numbers and if it ever happened would be called I-326.
Total course would run from Hobbyville, SC (S of Spartanburg about 18 miles) to Fairfax, SC via Augusta.
Ties 520 in August to the 20, would allow for a real loop, not a 1/4 loop.
Just better soil for building roads there.
Would serve a greater number of people which is what we really want anyway.

But I have no clue what is going on over that way other than what I hear from you guys on here and occasional spurts of random internet searching. So this thinking may be outdated and unwarranted.

[davidals]

Originally Posted by Hot_Mike

My point exactly, I-3 should first priority in the state.

The issue with this is neighboring states. At a transportation planning level, it's not on the radar - not even in a pie-in-the-sky fashion in NC, except for the resolutions opposing it passed in every southwest NC county it would traverse. It's never appeared in any NCDOT plan. Likewise, there has been opposition in TN, and it isn't being pursued or explored in any serious way. It was looked at slightly more seriously in SC - a proposed routing (in response to the opposition in TN and NC would have the route cross into SC north of Augusta, to end in Greenville SC) would run through part of SC, but there as well, there was pretty much unanimous opposition at the county government level.

The Augusta-to-Savannah portion does seem buildable, theoretically.

The various new interstates proposed aren't getting built very quickly - one could debate their necessity (solving current transportation problems VS using them as a theoretical economic development tool). That said, it should also be noted that some of the money that would have gone into them (in particular, sections of the proposed I-69 extension) was diverted into the Middle East wars, pushing construction start dates backwards a number of years.

[bgnzsavnh]

WaysSouth - Press Releases (http://www.wayssouth.org/pressreleases/july2010.php - broken link)

Interstate 3 Study Contract Awarded

"Mobile Chernobyl"